BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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THE federal government, on Tuesday, March 8, withdrew the N70 million bribery charges it levelled against Elder Godsday Orubebe, former minister of Niger Delta Affairs, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja.
At the resumed proceeding on the matter, Mohammed Diri, director, Public Prosecution, secured leave of the Justice Danladi Umar-led tribunal to withdraw the four-count corruption charge the government entered against Orubebe on October 8, 2015.
Diri told the CCT panel that federal government resolved to only prosecute the former minister on an amended one-count charge bordering on allegation that he had in 2007, made a false declaration of assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, contrary to section 15 of Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, Cap. 15 laws of the federation of Nigeria, 2014.
Culled from Vanguard
— Mar 8, 2016 @ 16:40 GMT
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